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146 persons at a distance—a class which, as I have already said includes sendings of every description.

Sendings.—One form of sending is described as follows: "When one individual has animosity against another, he constructs a dagger upon magic principles, and recites a prayer over it. Then, if his adversary lives at a distance, the sorcerer, seizing the dagger by the handle, stabs with the point in the direction of his enemy, whereupon the latter immediately falls sick. Blood gathers on the point of the dagger, and this the man sucks exclaiming: 'Now I am satisfied,' whilst his adversary becomes speechless and expires."

Another form of Tuju, in which the bow appears to have been employed as the instrument, was related to me by a Malay magician as follows: If you wish to abduct another person's soul, you must go out of the house either at daybreak or "when the newly-risen moon looks red," and standing with the big toe of the right foot resting upon the big toe of the left, make a trumpet by putting your right hand before your mouth, and recite through it the charm, which runs as follows:—

The text of this charm would, I think, be conclusive proof, even if there were no other, that the form of magic